RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow

On Sunday, Sept. 28, join Peter Coviello as he discusses his book VINELAND REREAD w/ John Plotz and Ethan Warren after a screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's *One Battle Another* at West Newton Cinema. tinyurl.com/3n2kcvzj @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tomorrow (9/22) at 6:15, Rachel Adams will be talking about her amazing new book, LOVE, MONEY, DUTY: STORIES OF CARE IN OUR TIME w/ C. Riley Snorton, Laura Mauldin, Matt Hart, and Amy Zhou at the Heyman Center! bit.ly/4nkzdMT @rachela212.bsky.social @sofheyman.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

New at PB: Jed Kudrick & @sdileonardi.bsky.social scour bestseller data to unpack trending translation in the US, despite the low national average of translations published each year.

"Bolsonaro showed how malleable the new digital information environment could be for those who want to construct alternate realities." @martinjemoore.bsky.social and Thomas Colley, authors of DICTATING REALITY. @columbiaup.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-brazilia...

"A monumental scholarly achievement that will prove foundational for future studies of the history of Chinese documentary." -- Jason McGrath REVOLUTIONARY BECOMINGS, by Ying Qian reviewed in MCLC. bit.ly/46xeDlH @columbiaup.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to chat with Doug Hess on the glorious FORGOTTEN HOLLYWOOD podcast about my book, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema!!! 🎧📚🎞️ @columbiaup.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Congratulations to Larry Heinzerling, Randy Herschaft, and Ann Cooper, whose book NEWSHAWKS IN BERLIN: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS & NAZI GERMANY was shortlisted for the Ann M. Sperber Book Prize! bit.ly/46bnkDj @columbiaup.bsky.social

On Thursday, October 2 at 6:30, join Courtney Thorsson as she discusses her book THE SISTERHOOD in a virtual conversation as part of the Schomburg Conversations in Black Freedom Studies. go.shr.lc/3KsLuR9 @courtneythorsson.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

On Saturday, October 4th at 2 pm, join Mat Fournier who will be interviewed about his book DYSPHORIC MODERNISM as part of Lammys Day 2025! bit.ly/4psrSgd @matfournier.bsky.social @lambdaliterary.org @columbiaup.bsky.social

Lammys Day 2025 Schedule drop! Join us online Saturday, October 4th for panels, interviews and finalist readings before the virtual ceremony. Purchasing tickets helps support Lambda's programming and ensures a lively audience for our winners: lambdaliterary.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?...

I almost only listen to leftist baseball podcasts but that’s just me. So many thanks to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for letting me talk about Downtime. Alix is the best reader and not surprisingly the best here too. Book is available from @columbiaup.bsky.social.

Lovely event last night at Hunter College to launch the global edition of @manubhagavan.bsky.social’s THE REMARKABLE MADAME PANDIT, the definitive biography of pioneering Indian diplomat Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Out now with @columbiaup.bsky.social!

I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System. You can check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...

An excellent interview w/ J.E. Smyth, in *Americana,* about her book, MARY MCCALL JR: THE RISE & FALL OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST POWERFUL SCREENWRITER and restoring women into the history of Hollywood. bit.ly/4ps7yvn @jesmyth.co.uk @columbiaup.bsky.social

This Friday's book launch for THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT, by Pooja Rangan is *sold out* but you can still purchase a copy of the book. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%. bit.ly/4lWIIRO @p8ja.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"A wise and affecting book."--Alondra Nelson Next Monday (9/22), Rachel Adams will be talking about her extraordinary new book, LOVE, MONEY, DUTY: STORIES OF CARE IN OUR TIME at the Heyman Center! bit.ly/4nkzdMT @rachela212.bsky.social @sofheyman.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"When the present confronts us as a violent impasse or vacancy, how do writers give it significance? Shir Alon’s shrewdly comparative readings of Hebrew and Arabic novels provide surprising answers"--Robyn Creswell Now available: STATIC FORMS. bit.ly/46EHCFm @columbiaup.bsky.social

@fuscowrites.bsky.social manages to find one more face in the Man of 1,000 Faces. In her new book, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System," she explores public personas of Lon Chaney and other early Hollywood stars. @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywo...

no better time to check out Amy Paeth's incredible book on the history of US Poet Laureate & the role of the state in American poetry @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ame...

I am honored that One Book One Bronx will host online and in-person book club discussions about **The Sisterhood** late November to late December. Check it out! @uoregon.bsky.social@uocas.bsky.social @philipleventhal.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social onebookonebronx.com

I did a Q&A about Downtime and slow motion, which certainly is one way to end up talking about The Great Beauty and The Matrix in the same sentence. My thanks to @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social. Downtime is out now from @columbiaup.bsky.social Available here: cup.columbia.edu/book/downtim...

Today's football game results are in: Alabama wins, and readers will receive 24% off during our Margin of Victory Sale! Save on books from University of Wisconsin Press and University of Alabama Press — deal expires 9/17/25. uwpress.wisc.edu www.uapress.edu #OnWisconsin #BookSale #RollBadge

"Reimagine[s] the purpose of higher education through values of ethics and solidarity grounded in collaborations among faculty and students." Read a review of Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan's OVERDETERMINED in *South Asian Review.* bit.ly/3IoA1S4 @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Mrs. Dalloway looks like a slim, almost miniature novel, but it has the scope of the great epics from Homer onward." Edward Mendelson discusses his new book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY. bit.ly/4mUsTvY @columbiaup.bsky.social

VIDEO: LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson recommends THE SISTERHOOD: HOW A NETWORK OF BLACK WOMEN WRITERS CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE, by Courtney Thorsson! youtube.com/shorts/c87Dw... @courtneythorsson.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

I was interviewed by @barbarabudrich.bsky.social who is distributed in select territories by @columbiaup.bsky.social it was fun to talk about the process of what I do in my role as client press manager budrich.de/en/news/part...

"Mrs. Dalloway ... combines multiple ways of thinking that shape Western culture. And Woolf does all that while focusing on unique individual persons on a single day." An interview w/ Edward Mendelson author of, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY. bit.ly/4mUsTvY @columbiaup.bsky.social

Come hear Rachel Adams in conversation about her amazing new book, LOVE, MONEY, DUTY: STORIES OF CARE IN OUR TIME at the Heyman Center on Monday, September 22nd! bit.ly/4nkzdMT @rachela212.bsky.social @sofheyman.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Now available! Shedding light on marginalized stardoms and the anxieties they provoked, HOLLYWOOD’S OTHERS challenges common notions about film’s capacity to build empathy. buff.ly/poXwPB4 #FilmHistory #Celebrity #Fandom @fuscowrites.bsky.social

Now available! Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, STITCH, UNSTITCH is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry. buff.ly/DlnVJeY #CreativeLabor #FeministModernism #WagesForHousework #Modernism

"Mrs. Dalloway looks like a slim, almost miniature novel, but it has the scope of the great epics from Homer onward." Read an interview with Edward Mendelson about his new book THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY. bit.ly/4mUsTvY @columbiaup.bsky.social

Join Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, Jo-Ann Morgan, and me 5:30 on 10/2 for our conversation "Black Arts, Black Spaces, and Black Performance." This is the second event in0 the Schomburg Center's 13th season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies. www.blackfreedomstudies.org/events/fall-...

Journalism needs new guidelines to face new challenges, by @sulliview.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/tim...

Now available! This book presents Foucault’s unpublished manuscript on Binswanger and existential analysis for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development. buff.ly/AI7UdbE #Philosophy #TranslationMonth

A fun thing--a (belated) congrats to Ian Johnson for winning an award for excellence in book reviewing for his NYRB of our @columbiaup.bsky.social biography of Liu Xiaobo by Perry Link & Wu Dazhi washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/20/t...

"Unusual and brilliant." -- Jonathan Lethem Looking for a crime novel and/or experimental fiction? Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS has them both! bit.ly/41DYbPu @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

In this Off the Page episode, host Miranda Melcher speaks with author Alison Griffiths about NOMADIC CINEMA. This book recovers Indigenous memory and sovereignty from within long-buried sources. buff.ly/mPRCXqy #CinemaStudies

Now available! A rich account of the competing and complementary forces that shape images of authors, THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP reveals the collaborative work of literary production and celebrity. buff.ly/GpP4bcV @sarahdallison.bsky.social

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “Chinese Songs in a French Key: How Judith Gautier’s Book of Jade Introduced Europe to Chinese Poetry” by Pauline Yu @columbiaup.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/chinese-song...

Congratulations to Katherine Fusco on the official publication date of her new book, HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS: LOVE & LIMITATION IN THE STAR SYSTEM! Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/4kN4HcR @fuscowrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"This book recasts the work of poetry and the poetry of work." -- Evie Shockley For #LaborDay: STITCH, UNSTITCH: MODERNIST POETRY & THE WORLD OF WORK, by Kristin Grogan bit.ly/4opXLp8 @kristingrogan.bsky.social #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

I don't think Omid Bagherli is on bluesky (then again, why am I on bluesky?) but I'm grateful for this review and particularly happy to see it in ASAP/Review since a lot of this book happened because of friends and colleagues at @asapartsnow.bsky.social asapjournal.com/review/slow-...

This was a cathartic read, I say as someone who cannot help but see any glossy Banned Books Week display of titles from the Big 5 through the lens of cratering library sales. New from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social, "My problem with Banned Books Week: The Unbought Book vs. the Challenged One."

today is the 4th anniversary of launching my baby, blackfilmarchive.com 🫂 in celebration of this anniversary, i answer my most asked questions like “what is up with all the trauma in black film?” and “should sex be on screen?”

Complementing the publication of THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson and published by @columbiaup.bsky.social is a new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel edited by Mendelson from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. bit.ly/4fT5doR

"The Technofeudal Text, a piece of writing which exists as digital information stored in a networked cloud architecture and therefore has a kind of magnetic, even parasitical relationship to its readers, where information about them is affixed to it, accruing value."

The Poetry Foundation invited me to write an essay remembering Alice Notley (1945-2025). I'm grateful for the space to remember her in this way. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

Damn. "Star," which he went by, talked to me for Big Fiction. I had a couple conversations with him. It was winter, he was at a country house in Connecticut, back from cross-country skiing. Fascinating career; I particularly drew him out on his role launching Patrick O'Brian in the U.S.